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Myanmar monk lashes out at Time magazine
Associated Press ^ | Jun 21, 2013 8:05 AM EDT

Posted on 06/21/2013 5:42:45 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Upon seeing his photo splashed across the cover of Time magazine with the words “Face of Buddhist Terror,” Myanmar’s most-talked-about monk was unfazed, saying no amount of bad publicity could hurt him.

The 46-year-old is accustomed to—even flattered by—the foreign reporters who steadily parade through his monastery in the city of Mandalay to ask about religious violence that has swept his predominantly Buddhist nation in the last year—fueled in no small part by his anti-Muslim rhetoric. …

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: buddhism; burma; jihad; liberalagenda; mainstreammedia; myanmar; rop; timemagazine
AP is doing a Bosnia on Burma.
1 posted on 06/21/2013 5:42:45 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

It is good that somewhere someone is opposing the brain dead flood of Islam.


2 posted on 06/21/2013 5:49:21 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economiws In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Olog-hai

I was wondering why the MSM was after a Buddhist monk...then saw that the monk was actually going after the MSM’s favorite “religion”...islam. (Bery bery small i intended.)

More power to the monk. He has more cojones than our entire contingent of liberal congresscritters.

Will there be a war with Islam?

Does the sun rise each morning?


3 posted on 06/21/2013 5:53:07 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Olog-hai

bookmark


4 posted on 06/21/2013 6:09:58 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Olog-hai

Another day in the Bizzaro World.


5 posted on 06/21/2013 7:39:04 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Da Coyote
then saw that the monk was actually going after the MSM’s favorite “religion”...islam

...LOL, yes there must be some strong muzzie-love motivating Time magazine to go halfway around the world to single out a Buddist monk, of all people, as a terrorist.

6 posted on 06/21/2013 7:56:26 AM PDT by ghost of nixon
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